By Vikram Vaswani This article copyright Melonfire 2000−2002. All rights reserved. Table of Contents A Matter Of Choice…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..1 Getting Started………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….2 First Steps…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5 Digging Deeper………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….8 Different Strokes……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..10 Rolling Around………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..14 Catching Mistakes……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………16 A Well−Formed Idea……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….18 Surfing The Web……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..20 PHP and PostgreSQL i A Matter Of Choice There’s something patently unfair going on here. For some reason, almost every PHP tutorial on the planet makes the implicit assumption that if you’re using PHP with a database, that database is going to be MySQL. Now, I have absolutely nothing against MySQL − I think it’s a great product, and I use it fairly often in my development activities. However, it’s not the only good open−source RDBMS out there − most developers have been playing with PostgreSQL for quite a while now, and quite a few of them would love to integrate their PostgreSQL backend with PHP. The only problem is, they have no idea
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